The Panel of Senior Advisers was founded in 2008 to provide Chatham House with an experienced sounding board for our policy conclusions and help communicate our ideas at the highest levels in the UK and abroad.

Chair: The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG, CH

• Ayman Asfari
  Group Chief Executive, Petrofac Ltd
   
• Shumeet Banerji
  Chief Executive Officer, Booz & Company
  
  
• Lord Browne of Madingley
  President, Royal Academy of Engineering; and Chief Executive, BP (1995-2007)
  
  
• R. Nicholas Burns
  Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, US Department of State (2005-2008); US Ambassador to NATO (2001-2005)
  
  
• Victor Chu
  Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong
  
  
• Tim Clark
  Senior Adviser to G3 and Fleming Family & Partners
  
  
• Suzan Sabancı Dinçer
  Chairman and Executive Board Member, Akbank
  
  
• Mary Francis CBE
  Non-Executive Director, Centrica, Aviva plc and Cable and Wireless Communications plc; Director, Bank of England (2001-07)
  
  
• James Gaggero
  Chairman, Bland Group Ltd
  
  
• André Hoffmann
  Vice-Chairman, Board of Roche Holding Ltd
   
• Lord Hurd of Westwell 
  UK Foreign Secretary (1989-95)
  
  
• Lord Jay of Ewelme
  Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign Office (2002-06)
  
  
• Sir Paul Judge
  Chairman, Schroder Income Growth Fund plc; Deputy Chairman, Royal Society of Arts
  
  
• Lord Kerr of Kinlochard
  Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign Office (1997-2002); Vice-Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
  
  
• Nemir Kirdar
  Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO, Investcorp
  
  
• Caio Koch-Weser
  Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group; Deputy Finance Minister for Germany (1999-2005)
  
  
• Marc Leland
  President, Marc E Leland and Associates, USA; Co-Chairman, German Marshall Fund of the United States
  
  
• Rachel Lomax
  Deputy Governor, Monetary Policy, the Bank of England (2003-08)
  
  
• Sir David Manning
  British Ambassador to the United States (2003-07); foreign affairs and defence adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair (2001-03)
  
  
• Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge
  Chairman, Nomura International plc and Pirelli UK
  
  
• Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE
  Chairman of the Independent Schools Council and The New West End Company
  
  
• Sir Michael Rake
  Chairman, BT and EasyJet
  
  
• Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
  Secretary General, NATO (1999-2003)
  
  
• Andrés Rozental
  Former Mexican diplomat; founding president of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations; chairman of ArcelorMittal Mexico; non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
  
  
• John C Whitehead
  Founding Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, USA; former Co-Chairman of Goldman Sachs